Glass mosaic perfume bottle
Translucent deep cobalt blue, with translucent honey brown, opaque white, opaque light blue, and opaque yellow trails.
Everted, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward, with fine indent around base; globular body; concave bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four strokes, alternating upward and downward, into a broad feather pattern.
Broken and repaired, with one large chip in rim, and one hole and some small cracks in body; some large bubbles; faint iridescence and small patches of creamy white weathering.
Everted, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward, with fine indent around base; globular body; concave bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern of applied trails wound round on a blue ground and then tooled in four strokes, alternating upward and downward, into a broad feather pattern.
Broken and repaired, with one large chip in rim, and one hole and some small cracks in body; some large bubbles; faint iridescence and small patches of creamy white weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st half of 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast and blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: Diam.: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.320
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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